Beasts, savages, barbarians, idolaters, and infidels: racialization in the chronicles of the conquest of the Canary Islands.
Rereading the chronicles of the conquest of the Canary Islands in the present can be useful in assessing the role of racism in the foundation of the capitalist world system. From the perspective of historical sociology, this article finds that race does not operate in these chronicles as a marker of...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 402 - 421 |
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